Posted in A, tagged active imagination, collective unconscious, creative visualization, daydream, dream, dreams, fantasy, ghost, guru, hesse, jung, jungian, matter, mind, new age, psychology, remote influence, soul, spirit, unconscious, william james on May 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud
Disagree on How to Treat
the Patient’s Stormtrooper Delusion
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Active Imagination An apparently therapeutic technique developed by C. G. Jung that uses some form of self-expression, such as a fantasy-image, to represent and analyze the contents of the hypothesized collective unconscious.
Active imagination may involve artistic representation but this is secondary [...]
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Posted in A, tagged abuse, adi da, avatar, brainwashing, california, church, Clairvoyance, cults, da free john, disciples, dysfunctional, enlightenment, ESP, freedom, guide, guides, guru, heartmaster da, hindu, hinduism, institute, Jesus, jesus christ, leader, liberation, manipulation, mind control, new age, organizations, psi, psychic, reincarnation, religion, sects, seekers, siddhis, soul, spirit, spirituality, teacher on May 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Adi Da (aka Free-John, Da 1939- ) Originally Franklin Jones, Adi Da is an American guru born in Jamaica, New York. He has also gone under the names of Da Free-John, Bubba Free-John and Heartmaster Da.
Adi Da claims to have reached enlightenment at age three years. In their Dictionary of Cults, Sects, Religions and the [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Anthroposophy, belief, blind faith, buddhist, cayce, ESP, faith, graff, hindu, insight, intuition, jung, myth, new age, prediction, psi, psychic, religion, remote viewing, science, scientism, spirit, Steiner, targ, theosophy on April 22, 2008 | No Comments »
£20 Holograms
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Akashic Records Derived from the Hindu (Sanskrit) and Buddhist (Pali) understanding of akasha (= ether, subtle space, the forms of space), the Akashic Records is a term used by Theosophy and Anthroposophy to denote a cosmic memory bank of all that ever was.
The term is often used uncritically by believers, not [...]
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Posted in A, tagged astrology, astronomy, belief, devil, esoteric, fantasy, holism, holistic, myth, new age, paranormal, parapsychology, pseudoscience, religion, Satan, science, scientism on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Astrology [Greek: astron (star) + logos (discourse) = "discussion on stars"]
Ancient method of divination and forecasting originally developed in Mesopotamia (Babylonia and Assyria) for the benefit of ruling kings.
In ancient Hellenistic culture astrology became popularized and individualistic.
In English translations of the Old Testament astrologers appear to be condemned quite often. But only in one instance [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Aristotle, atlantis, Blavatsky, cayce, fable, fantasy, history, legend, myth, mythology, new age, plato, soul, spirit, Stargate Atlantis, stargate sg-1 on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Atlantis An ancient and possibly legendary civilization whose military capabilities apparently posed a threat to Europe and Africa before it finally disappeared into the sea.
The Greek statesman Solon learned from an Egyptian priest at Sykes about ancient temple records telling of Atlantis. Dating back over 9,000 years, the records said that a massive destruction periodically [...]
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Posted in A, tagged atman, Brahman, christianity, hindu, hinduism, mysticism, new age, ramanuja, religion, sankara, soul, updanisads on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Atman (probably from Skt. an “to breathe” 
in Hinduism, particularly in the school of Advaita Vedanta, this may be roughly understood as the “soul.”
In the Upanisads, the Atman is eternal, all-knowing and cannot be killed. The lower-case atman, translated from the Sankrit, usually refers to the personal soul. The upper-case Atman is the universal soul, [...]
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Posted in C, tagged channeling, new age, soul, spirit on January 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Channeling This is a new, perhaps more marketable name for the old, esoteric idea of mediumship.
A ‘channeler’ allegedly allows a purely spiritual being to speak or write through his or her living, embodied person.
Channeled beings may be people who’ve passed or entities residing in heaven, astral realms and other universes and dimensions.
Information derived from channeling [...]
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Controlled Dreaming (also called conscious or lucid dreaming) A controversial technique based on shamanic traditions in which one allegedly creates or has a conscious effect on the content of a dream.
This apparently requires a degree of consciousness not readily available to most. Some say they control their dreams simply as a pleasurable or novel activity. [...]
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Posted in C, tagged creative visualization, new age on January 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Creative Visualization » Gawain, Shakti
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Posted in D, tagged australia, cosmology, dreamtime, myth, new age, Philosophy, Q, sci-fi, science fiction, star trek on December 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Dreamtime The Australian aboriginal belief that all animal and human life exists in a complex set of interrelations, ultimately connecting to primal ancestors existing in the Dreamtime, a place laying beyond or behind the apparent distinctions we make in our day-to-day lives.
Generally, a threefold map of (1) the Human World (2) the Physical World and [...]
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